no i understood what the op was saying but a lot of things are offensive words jew chink et al its the power behind words that makes them offensive history and culture have everything to do with how a word is seen dyke used to be an offensive word too before we reclaimed it and now its only okay if we say it but who can say i think its just as offensive when someone who has never been called a nigger doesnt really know how much it hurts people call me sir and it pisses me off but im quicker to anger when i get called a nigger which has happened on multiple occasions at random and unsparked